POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Milan Kundera, Jorge Luis Borges, Gustave Flaubert

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1000
• Professor: Martin Breaugh

Document Summary

The art of the novel milan kundera. The jerusalem address- basis for lecture 1985. Flaubert paints a portrait of bourgeois life in a small french town. Wrote a dictionary of received ideas, that collected the clich s and stereotypes of his time period, considered to be thoughtful and enlightened opinions. Always good to have recourse to etymology the origin of words. Bourgeoisie comes from the fact that in medieval times, cities were fortified. Merchants would set up shop outside of these walls. Major social force, in modern times, the way they saw things is common to the way we see things today, social status is reduced to money, possession of goods, and travel abilities. The goal of the (cid:862)(cid:373)er(cid:272)ha(cid:374)t(cid:863) is to (cid:373)ake (cid:373)o(cid:374)ey. 1789- french revolution bourgeoisie, replaced the aristocracy ruling class, that had ruled france for a very long time. The bourgeoisie, along with the poor and peasants stripped the aristocracy of their power.